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Community Investment Portfolio and Business Ecosystems Development
This document outlines a framework for developing local business ecosystems and community investment portfolios. It proposes mapping local assets and consumption patterns, developing business cases that serve local needs within value chains, and leveraging multiple forms of capital to launch and scale ecosystem businesses. The goal is for communities to invest their time, skills, relationships and other resources to create local jobs, meet local needs, and improve quality of life without relying on outside money. Diagrams show how to overlay this framework on a sample community, map existing and potential business cases, and illustrate capital flows between ecosystem components.
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- 1. Community Investment Portfolioand Business Ecosystems Development March 2011
- 2. Value Proposition: Local Populationof 10,000 + No Outside Money = 20 Local Agriculture Businesses and 70 New Jobs • Map what is there, note what is missing, and model what is possible – Define local population boundaries – Document consumption patterns: what is consumed, how much, and consequences • Build business cases that target a local market – Respond to needs of local population – Focus on metrics of gallons, calories, cubic feet, kilowatts, square feet, etc. • Establish a healthy, sustainable business ecosystem – Group business cases into like kind and value chain clusters on a flows framework – Develop business cases that demonstrate efficiency and effectiveness of flows • Leverage local assets with a community investment portfolio – Utilize multiple capitals to launch and scale business ecosystem businesses – Conduct transactions with multiple mediums of exchange • Strive for 100% participation by community members – Emphasize civic engagement in local governance – a co-op structure – Invest 4 hours per day in exchange for a reasonable quality of life
- 3. Apple Creek Community InvestmentPortfolio Landscape Define an area with a minimum population of 10,000 people Map the assets they can invest in their business ecosystem
- 4. Secret Sauce #1 Apple Creek Community Investment Portfolio Landscape * Numbers to remember: • 4,000,000 population in Northeast Ohio • Equals 400 localities with populations of 10,000 • Each locality supports an agriculture-based business ecosystem with 20 new businesses • 20 businesses generate 70 jobs... • ...times 400 localities equals 28,000 agriculture-based jobs among 4,000,000 people Define an area with a minimum population of 10,000 people Map the assets they can invest in their business ecosystem * 25% Shift- Benefits of Food Localization for Northeast Ohio and How to Realize Them
- 5. Take a CommunityInvestment Portfolio framework... Services Virtual (Green) Points Production Processing Preparation of Consumption Physical (Orange) Products
- 6. Secret Sauce #2 Takea Community Investment Portfolio framework... Start at Points of Consumption... Build the Local Business Ecosystem back to its source Services Virtual (Green) Gallons Calories Cubic Feet Kilowatts Square Feet Attire Points Production Processing Preparation of Consumption Security Health Care Education Physical (Orange) Products
- 7. Overlay the CommunityInvestment Portfolio Framework onto the Landscape Services Virtual (Green) Gallons Calories Cubic Feet Kilowatts Square Feet Attire Points Production Processing Preparation of Consumption Security Health Care Education Physical (Orange) Products
- 8. Secret Sauce #3 Populated Community Investment Portfolio Governance Contractual Capital Teaching Criminal Compliance Exchange Access Research Outreach Legal Transactions Education Asset Asset Information Decision CIP Services Asset Maps Inventory Ecosystem Models Utilization Information Flows Systems Decision Support Support Management Virtual (Green) Gallons Calories Cubic Feet In Out In Out In Out Kilowatts Square Feet Livestock Flour Meat Attire Grain Institutional Mobile Aquaculture Reuse Milling Processing Recycle Points Production Processing Preparation Workplace of Reclaim Repurpose Fruits Dairy Food Creamery Experiential In-Home Consumption Vegetables Processing Security Health Care In Out In Out In Out Education Zero Waste Bio-Energy Physical (Orange) Equipment Facilities Distribution Products Equipment Systems Facilities Management Operations Operations
- 9. Map the BusinessCases onto the Apple Creek Community Investment Portfolio Landscape to Populate the Business Ecosystem
- 10. Secret Sauce #4 Flows of capitals within a Community Investment Portfolio and the benefits for community member investors Forms of Capital: Individual Intellectual Social Political Natural Built Financial Mediums of Exchange: Time License Networks Influence Access Utilization Money Investment in Local Business Ecosystem: What You Put In Return from Local Business Ecosystem: What You Get Back Balance: = What You Have to Spend Needs: What It Takes to Live Water / Food Fuel / Energy Housing Clothing Security Health Care Education Balance: = How Much Is Left Over Wants: What It Takes to Do More Unlimited Balance: Z-E-R-0 Until There Is Nothing Left
- 11. Secret Sauce #5 Apple Creek Community Investment Portfolio Landscape Ready to… Start your Community Investment Portfolio? Build your Local Business Ecosystem? Click on Course Section for Guidance Business Local Local Business Business Ecosystems Economies: Asset Maps Economies: Ecosystems: Ecosystems: Social 101 Advanced 101 Advanced Dynamics Define an area with a minimum population of 10,000 people Map the assets they can invest in their business ecosystem
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- 13. City of Youngstown LocalBusiness Ecosystems Opportunity Spaces
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